Installed 3.0.2.0 opencart on Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9. I am planning on doing local dev work.
Followed the process and done this multiple times with installs and tear downs.
The admin section is working correctly.
After populating the data on the default store it does not bring up a proper store.
Any ideas on where to go or what can I add to make this easier to diagnose.

awesome sauce. It worked. I downloaded
3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
from the mainsite and scp it over to my linux machine and it worked. I had previously downloaded it using this:
wget https://github.com/opencart/opencart/archive/master.zip
it must have brought down the dev branch.! Thank you for you help!